----- Original Message ----- From: "Indranil Das Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Usefulness BitTorrent
> AFAIK bittorrent is more geared towards load-distributing at the http server > level... unless the server is running bittorrent and has a large number of > simultaneous d/ls happening from connecting hosts using the bittorrent > protocol, you are unlikely to see any advantage. Typically where bittorrent helps avoid is packet congestion (as described in Nagle's Algorithm) at the server URI link Interesting RFCs and documents: [1] "HTTP/1.1 and Nagle's Algorithm" -- http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Nagle/ [2] "Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks" -- http://rfc.net/rfc896.html (Nagle's Algo) [3] "Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG" -- http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Pipeline.html --indra. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
